Wild Thing · Jimi Hendrix

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-11, 21-32 and 39-49, and 1 more place -- 65.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 78 BPM
WILD THING · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 50 and 73.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 6 sections: 59 keep time, 3 are fills, 9 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-49.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wild Thing?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Wild Thing hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wild Thing?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 50 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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